Unit 3 Vocab -- HWG

An Indo-European people who, about 1500 B.C., began to migrate into the Indian subcontinent.

• Brahmin

• Aryans

• Caste system

• Enlightenment

A violent storm with fierce winds and heavy rain; the most extreme weather pattern of South Asia.

• Atoll

• Green Revolution

• Cyclone

• Harappan civilization

In Aryan society, a member of the social class made up of priests.

• Brahmin

• Nirvana

• Sanskrit

• Urdu

An Aryan system of social classes in India and one of the cornerstones of Hinduism in which each person is born into a caste and can only move into a different caste through reincarnation.

• Jainism

• Caste System

• Hindi

• Karma

Fourth of the Four Noble Truths that is the system to achieve spiritual enlightenment and cease suffering; also called the Middle Path or Middle Way.

• Stupa

• Cyclone

• Mahayana

• Eightfold Path

In Buddhism, a state of perfect wisdom in which one understands basic truths about the universe.

• Sikhism

• Enlightenment

• Hindu Kush

• Monsoon

The doctrines of Buddha that are the essence of Buddhism; all life is suffering, the cause of suffering is ignorant desire, this desire can be destroyed, the means to this is the Eightfold Path.

• Four Noble Truths

• Vedas

• Harappan civilization

• Reincarnation

A 20th-century attempt to increase food resources worldwide, involving the use of fertilizers and pesticides and the development of disease-resistant crops.

• Green Revolution

• Four Noble Truths

• Khyber Pass

• Eightfold Path

Ring-like coral island or string of small islands surrounding a lagoon.

• Sherpa

• Archipelago

• Atoll

• Subcontinent

Another name for the Indus Valley civilization that arose along the Indus River, possibly as early as 7000 B.C.; characterized by sophisticated city planning.

• Theravada

• Hindi

• Monsoon

• Harappan civilization